[time-nuts] Lightsquared and the FCC

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Wed Feb 2 19:13:49 UTC 2011


by then those in the FCC who ok'ed this will be working as a lobbyist

-pete

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:32 AM, John Green <wpxs472 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the FCC weren't a government entity they would be called whores.
> This reminds me of the time several years ago when it was taking a
> year or more to get a grant for a 800 MHz license. The FCC granted
> thousands, yes thousands of requests from the company that would
> become Nextel all in one day. Quite often granting them a license for
> a frequency that was already licensed at the same location by someone
> else. All who objected were told to shut up and go away. Some years
> later when interference to public safety systems by Nextel got bad
> enough, the FCC made Nextel relocate those systems to different
> frequencies less prone to interference. But, they granted them access
> to the adjacent 900 MHz spectrum without having to file paperwork.
> When the first plane crashes because of Lightsquared interference, I
> hope the political s**t storm drowns those clowns.
>
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